Year |
Fiction Award |
Year |
Biography Award
|
1919 |
Hugh Walpole, The Secret City |
1919 |
Henry Festing Jones, Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835-1902) - A Memoir
|
1920 |
D. H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl |
1920 |
G. M. Trevelyan, Lord Grey of the Reform Bill
|
1921 |
Walter de la Mare, Memoirs of a Midget |
1921 |
Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria
|
1922 |
David Garnett, Lady into Fox |
1922 |
Percy Lubbock, Earlham
|
1923 |
Arnold Bennett, Riceyman Steps |
1923 |
Sir Ronald Ross, Memoirs, Etc.
|
1924 |
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India |
1924 |
Rev. William Wilson, The House of Airlie
|
1925 |
Liam O'Flaherty, The Informer |
1925 |
Geoffrey Scott, The Portrait of Zelide
|
1926 |
Radclyffe Hall, Adam's Breed |
1926 |
Reverend Dr H. B. Workman, John Wyclif: A Study of the English Medieval Church
|
1927 |
Francis Brett Young, Portrait of Clare |
1927 |
H. A. L. Fisher, James Bryce, Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, O.M.
|
1928 |
Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man |
1928 |
John Buchan, Montrose
|
1929 |
J. B. Priestley, The Good Companions |
1929 |
Lord David Cecil, The Stricken Deer: or The Life of Cowper
|
1930 |
E. H. Young, Miss Mole |
1930 |
Francis Yeats-Brown, Lives of a Bengal Lancer
|
1931 |
Kate O'Brien, Without My Cloak |
1931 |
J. Y. R. Greig, David Hume
|
1932 |
Helen de Guerry Simpson, Boomerang |
1932 |
Stephen Gwynn, The Life of Mary Kingsley
|
1933 |
A. G. Macdonell, England, Their England |
1933 |
Violet Clifton, The Book of Talbot
|
1934 |
Robert Graves, I, Claudius and Claudius the God |
1934 |
J. E. Neale, Queen Elizabeth
|
1935 |
L. H. Myers, The Root and the Flower |
1935 |
Raymond Wilson Chambers, Thomas More
|
1936 |
Winifred Holtby, South Riding |
1936 |
Edward Sackville West, A Flame in Sunlight: The Life and Work of Thomas de Quincey
|
1937 |
Neil M. Gunn, Highland River |
1937 |
Lord Eustace Percy, John Knox
|
1938 |
C. S. Forester, A Ship of the Line and Flying Colours |
1938 |
Sir Edmund Chambers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
|
1939 |
Aldous Huxley After Many a Summer Dies the Swan |
1939 |
David C. Douglas, English Scholars
|
1940 |
Charles Morgan, The Voyage |
1940 |
Hilda F. M. Prescott, Spanish Tudor: Mary I of England
|
1941 |
Joyce Cary, A House of Children |
1941 |
John Gore, King George V
|
1942 |
Arthur Waley, Translation of Monkey by Wu Cheng'en |
1942 |
Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede, Henry Ponsonby: Queen Victoria's Private Secretary
|
1943 |
Mary Lavin, Tales from Bective Bridge |
1943 |
G. G. Coulton, Fourscore Years
|
1944 |
Forrest Reid, Young Tom |
1944 |
C. V. Wedgwood, William the Silent
|
1945 |
L. A. G. Strong, Travellers |
1945 |
D. S. MacColl, Philip Wilson Steer
|
1946 |
Oliver Onions, Poor Man's Tapestry |
1946 |
Richard Aldington, Wellington
|
1947 |
L. P. Hartley, Eustace and Hilda |
1947 |
Rev. C. C. E. Raven, English Naturalists from Neckham to Ray
|
1948 |
Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter |
1948 |
Percy A. Scholes, The Great Dr Burney
|
1949 |
Emma Smith, The Far Cry |
1949 |
John Connell, W. E. Henley
|
1950 |
Robert Henriques, Through the Valley |
1950 |
Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale
|
1951 |
Chapman Mortimer, Father Goose |
1951 |
Noel Annan, Leslie Stephen
|
1952 |
Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms |
1952 |
G. M. Young, Stanley Baldwin
|
1953 |
Margaret Kennedy, Troy Chimneys |
1953 |
Carola Oman, Sir John Moore
|
1954 |
C. P. Snow, The New Men and The Masters |
1954 |
Keith Feiling, Warren Hastings
|
1955 |
Ivy Compton-Burnett, Mother and Son |
1955 |
R. W. Ketton-Cremer, Thomas Gray
|
1956 |
Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond |
1956 |
St John Greer Ervine, George Bernard Shaw
|
1957 |
Anthony Powell, At Lady Molly's |
1957 |
Maurice Cranston, Life of John Locke
|
1958 |
Angus Wilson, The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot |
1958 |
Joyce Hemlow, The History of Fanny Burney
|
1959 |
Morris West, The Devil's Advocate |
1959 |
Christopher Hassall, Edward Marsh
|
1960 |
Rex Warner, Imperial Caesar |
1960 |
Canon Adam Fox, The Life of Dean Inge
|
1961 |
Jennifer Dawson, The Ha-Ha |
1961 |
M. K. Ashby, Joseph Ashby of Tysoe
|
1962 |
Ronald Hardy, Act of Destruction |
1962 |
Meriol Trevor, Newman: The Pillar and the Cloud and Newman: Light in Winter
|
1963 |
Gerda Charles, A Slanting Light |
1963 |
Georgina Battiscombe, John Keble: A Study in Limitations
|
1964 |
Frank Tuohy, The Ice Saints |
1964 |
Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R.I.
|
1965 |
Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate |
1965 |
Mary Moorman, William Wordsworth: The Later Years 1803-1850
|
1966 |
Christine Brooke-Rose, Such, and Aidan Higgins, Langrishe, Go Down |
1966 |
Geoffrey Keynes, The Life of William Harvey
|
1967 |
Margaret Drabble, Jerusalem The Golden |
1967 |
Winifred Gérin, Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of Genius
|
1968 |
Maggie Ross, The Gasteropod |
1968 |
Gordon Haight, George Eliot
|
1969 |
Elizabeth Bowen, Eva Trout |
1969 |
Antonia Fraser, Mary, Queen of Scots
|
1970 |
Lily Powell, The Bird of Paradise |
1970 |
Jasper Ridley, Lord Palmerston
|
1971 |
Nadine Gordimer, A Guest of Honour |
1971 |
Julia Namier, Lewis Namier
|
1972 |
John Berger, G |
1972 |
Quentin Bell, Virginia Woolf
|
1973 |
Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince |
1973 |
Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great
|
1974 |
Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, or the Prince of Darkness |
1974 |
John Wain, Samuel Johnson
|
1975 |
Brian Moore, The Great Victorian Collection |
1975 |
Karl Miller, Cockburn's Millennium
|
1976 |
John Banville, Doctor Copernicus |
1976 |
Ronald Hingley, A New Life of Chekhov
|
1977 |
John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy |
1977 |
George Painter, Chateaubriand: Volume 1 - The Longed-For Tempests
|
1978 |
Maurice Gee, Plumb |
1978 |
Robert Gittings, The Older Hardy
|
1979 |
William Golding, Darkness Visible |
1979 |
Brian Finney, Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography
|
1980 |
J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians |
1980 |
Robert B. Martin, Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart
|
1981 |
Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children, and Paul Theroux, The Mosquito Coast |
1981 |
Victoria Glendinning, Edith Sitwell: Unicorn Among Lions
|
1982 |
Bruce Chatwin, On The Black Hill |
1982 |
Richard Ellmann, James Joyce
|
1983 |
Jonathan Keates, Allegro Postillions |
1983 |
Alan Walker, Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years
|
1984 |
J. G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun, and Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus |
1984 |
Lyndall Gordon, Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life
|
1985 |
Robert Edric, Winter Garden |
1985 |
David Nokes, Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed
|
1986 |
Jenny Joseph, Persephone |
1986 |
Dame Felicitas Corrigan, Helen Waddell
|
1987 |
George Mackay Brown, The Golden Bird: Two Orkney Stories |
1987 |
Ruth Dudley Edwards, Victor Gollancz: A Biography
|
1988 |
Piers Paul Read, A Season in the West |
1988 |
Brian McGuinness, Wittgenstein, A Life: Young Ludwig (1889-1921)
|
1989 |
James Kelman, A Disaffection |
1989 |
Ian Gibson, Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life
|
1990 |
William Boyd, Brazzaville Beach |
1990 |
Claire Tomalin, The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens
|
1991 |
Iain Sinclair, Downriver |
1991 |
Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin
|
1992 |
Rose Tremain, Sacred Country |
1992 |
Charles Nicholl, The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
|
1993 |
Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River |
1993 |
Richard Holmes, Dr Johnson and Mr Savage
|
1994 |
Alan Hollinghurst, The Folding Star |
1994 |
Doris Lessing, Under My Skin
|
1995 |
Christopher Priest, The Prestige |
1995 |
Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with the Truth
|
1996 |
Graham Swift, Last Orders, and Alice Thompson, Justine |
1996 |
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer: A Life
|
1997 |
Andrew Miller, Ingenious Pain |
1997 |
R. F. Foster, W. B. Yeats: A Life, Volume 1 - The Apprentice Mage 1965-1914
|
1998 |
Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie |
1998 |
Peter Ackroyd, The Life of Thomas More
|
1999 |
Timothy Mo, Renegade, or Halo2 |
1999 |
Kathryn Hughes, George Eliot: The Last Victorian
|
2000 |
Zadie Smith, White Teeth |
2000 |
Martin Amis, Experience
|
2001 |
Sid Smith, Something Like a House |
2001 |
Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes: Volume 3 - Fighting for Britain 1937-1946
|
2002 |
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections |
2002 |
Jenny Uglow, The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730-1810
|
2003 |
Andrew O'Hagan, Personality |
2003 |
Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: Volume 2 - The Power of Place
|
2004 |
David Peace, GB84 |
2004 |
Jonathan Bate, John Clare: A Biography
|
2005 |
Ian McEwan, Saturday |
2005 |
Sue Prideaux, Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream
|
2006 |
Cormac McCarthy, The Road |
2006 |
Byron Rogers, The Man Who Went into the West: The life of R.S. Thomas
|